Advanced Training Session Agenda:
Beyond Red and Green
(a.k.a., What We Can Expect to Learn from Advanced PEPPER Training)
Go Beyond the Basics of PEPPER:- A more complex analysis of the uses and applications of PEPPER
- A sophisticated discussion of statistics and underlying calculations
- Specific interpretive uses of PEPPER
- How PEPPER can be used even when your hospital is NOT considered an outlier
- Understand the methods employed by CMS in developing target areas
- Focus on target areas that represent the most relevant issues to your hospital and state
- View demonstrations with actual PEPPER data
- Examine current, in-depth examples of the target areas that directly concern coding and utilization issues
- Specific ways to identify trends in your hospital's data
- Methods for investigating the cause of potential payment errors
- How your hospital's compliance efforts affect your state's, and the nation's, payment error rate
- How to sort and modify the way PEPPER is presented
- Address the technical concerns of session attendees
- Troubleshooting
